Introducing Dwayne Winseck

Carleton Professor Dwayne Winseck has joined OpenMedia.ca as Chief Policy Blogger for the election, and we couldn't be more pleased to welcome him aboard! In addition to writing his own blog, Mediamorphis, Dwayne will be contributing regularly to The Globe And Mail.

Read his bio:

Dwayne Winseck is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, with a cross-appointment in the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Dwayne has been researching and writing about media, telecoms, and the Internet in one way or another for nearly 20 years, and wears a couple of hats: the first is that of a political economist of the media, telecom and Internet industries, and the second is that of a media historian. He has recently been named “Chief Policy Blogger” at Open Media and taken up the role of regular contributor to the technology section of the online version of Canada’s leading national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, beginning April 19, 2011.

His last book, Communication and Empire (Duke University Press 2007), co-authored with Robert Pike, provides a critical account of the historical rise of the global media industries from the mid-19th century until the Great Depression of 1930. It won the Canadian Communication Association’s ‘book of the year’ prize in 2008 and has been reviewed nearly thirty times in venues around the world, including by the editors of Foreign Policy. His new book, co-edited (with Dal Yong Jin) The Political Economies of Media: the Transformation of the Global Media Industries will be published in May 2011 by Bloomsbury Academic (London, UK).